You asked for it, and now you got it! Mike is offering a 5-day, action-packed, non-stop, wood-working extravaganza here at his Colorado Studio! During this course you will build your own dream electric guitar!

The class project will be a solid body with bolt on neck, however throughout the week Mike will demo dozens of different techniques and construction options. You can choose to build one of Mike’s standard models (Rock Caster, ICON or Flak Jacket) OR design your own body, headstock and truss rod cover! If you choose to design your own, you will need to have a good idea of what shape you want when you come to class, and the design will be subject to approval to ensure that your instrument will be properly balanced with good sound. You will also learn to route your guitar to hold the hardware and pick up(s) configuration of your choice.

You will learn:

• how a guitar works
• the basic geometry of an instrument and how to be creative within these guidelines
• how to apply your knowledge to plan your instrument
• how to choose good tonal wood
• techniques for solid, chambered and semi hollow bodies
• how to work with patterns and jigs
• complete fret work
• set up
• wiring
• how to choose your hardware (what works with what and why)
• how to finish your instrument with natural wood or custom paint options
• and much much more!!

We will supply all materials to build the body, neck and fingerboards including fret wire and truss rods. You will need to provide your bridge, pickup(s), hardware, tuners and strings.

Make Your Own Electric Guitar in a class with Mike!!

Due to the time frame, we will not be able to complete a custom paint job on the guitar. You can choose a natural wood finish, or go home with a guitar primed and ready for paint.

Dates: Wednesday April 8 – Sunday April 12
Time: 9 – 6 PM daily
Location: Mike’s studio in Boulder County CO

Seats in this class are VERY limited. The cost of the course is $1200. If you are ready to reserve a seat, or if you have any further questions, please contact me.

Phone: 303.828.0370
Email: info@learnairbrush.com
LIVE Help: Use the LIVE CHAT buttons located throughout our family of web sites

Mike is currently working on another paint job for a repeat customer, Nick Geiger. Nick is the owner of the Skull Glide Two Tone Bagger built by Klockwerks that garnered quite a bit of industry attention last year.

As you can imagine, the costs to custom paint an entire bagger can be staggering, especially when the pieces that you want painted top 20-30. For this particular paint job, Nick wanted to give his Harley Factory job a real custom look, without starting a paint scheme from scratch. After establishing the budget that he wanted, Mike and Nick worked through a bunch of ideas that would be added to the new, existing paint. This allowed the budgeted dollars to go to artwork, and keep prep and paint time to a minimum.

Here is the first stage of artwork. Mike is adding fire to the black areas of the paint scheme, with skulls appearing throughout the flame licks. He will also be adding pinstriping and “MAYBE” some gold leaf. That decision will be made as the paint progresses. Some more elaborate artwork will be placed on the ferring. Stay tuned for more images!

Nick's Bagger In Process

Mike’s newest Learn Guitar model, the Neck-Through Rock Caster debuted on stage for the first time last night!  This is the first in a series of war plane tributes Mike will be building.  He is going to do one a month for a full series of 12 built on this model, each representing a differnt war plane.  The first one, as you can see here, will honor the Flying Tiger P40.

If you are interested in more information about the instrument, please visit:
LearnGuitars.com

We have 6 classes on the books so far this year, and expect to add a few other locations as well.

• April 8 – 12: Denver / Boulder – 5 Day Build Your Own Custom Electric Guitar
• April 25 – 26: Denver / Boulder – 2 Day Pinstriping and Gold Leaf Course
• May 9: Scottsbluff NE – One day pinstriping workshop
• May 28-31: Edmonton, Alberta Canada – 3.5 Day Intense Airbrush Class
• June 24 – 26 – ABU at Stone Hill College in South Easton MA - 3 Day Intense Airbrush Course
• October 8 – 11: Denver / Boulder – 3.5 Day Intense Airbrush Course

Please check out the Seminar Tab at the top of the page for specific details for the available courses, pricing and contact information!!

Mike did several interviews while at NAMM this past month. We have found a few of them and thought we would post them for your enjoyment!

This first one is from GearWire.com. You can get the whole story HERE.

These next 2 are YouTube movies that were in terrible need of better lighting… but they are fun none the less:

This weekend was the annual Denver Motorcycle Show & Swap. It is a show that has been going on here in Denver for like 35 years and is one of the largest mc swaps in the country. Last year we fell into a spot on the main level, in the coveted front of the building, and the guys who run the show have let us keep that spot for as long as we want it.

The show was all day Saturday and most of Sunday. We had a 20′ x 10′ booth and did a stripped down version of our typical set up. We had a lot of prints that sold quite well and the place was PACKED all day Saturday.  Although you never know what you are going to get out of these shows, it’s a numbers game. I will say that we definitely drew the numbers.

Normally Mike would do a painting at a show like this, but since it is indoors, packed and short, he opted to pinstripe. It was a very good choice. The striping went over really well and he had a crowd around him most of the time and all the panels sold out from under him. Unfortunately I had the camera with no memory card Saturday, so all the pictures are from Sunday only – after all the action.

Sunday morning, despite his hung-over rock star state (Citizen Pain had to play out Friday and Saturday nights), Mike participated in a Pin Stripe Panel Jam Off. The artwork was then raffled off for some good cause.

Pete LeClaire’s bagger was in the show. It was absolutely stunning and was head and shoulders above anything else in the show, at least in my opinion.  In the end, the bagger took Third. Not sure what to think about that.  Check out the assembled pictures of the beauty!